From: David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:44:25 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * doc/install.texi: Add binutils version recommendation for mips-*-*.
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* doc/install.texi: Add binutils version recommendation for mips-*-*.

From-SVN: r114512
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diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index af0cfbd2b632..b33155de0211 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2006-06-09  David Daney  <ddaney@avtrex.com>
+
+	* doc/install.texi: Add binutils version recommendation for mips-*-*.
+
 2006-06-09  Andreas Krebbel  <krebbel1@de.ibm.com>
 
 	* reload.c (find_reloads): Unset force_reload for 'X' constraint.
diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi
index dae27c47bdc4..c3d75fb13838 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/install.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi
@@ -3453,6 +3453,11 @@ currently do not work, because the auxiliary programs
 anything but a MIPS.  It does work to cross compile for a MIPS
 if you use the GNU assembler and linker.
 
+The linker from GNU binutils versions prior to 2.17 has a bug which
+causes the runtime linker stubs in @file{libgcj.so} to be incorrectly
+generated.  If you want to use libgcj, either use binutils 2.17 or
+later to build it or export @samp{LD_BIND_NOW=1} in your runtime environment.
+
 @html
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